Word: shows
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...dark hours of last night and early morning eight hundred soldiers of misfortune sprinkled their blouses with the familiar and odorous Carbona, patched up the rips in their breeches, turned their shirts inside out so the dirt wouldn't show, polished their shoes with liquid paint, and washed their faces for the great inspection. In time of peace, as Shakespere so ably said it, prepare for war. The preparation has been made...
...Eskimo. Yet we hear the voluminous applause of six hundred men at the proper dramatic pause, and the right ripple or broad guffaw of as many at the humorous interlude. It may be that a few, habituated to the Gallic tongue, lead the applause, and the rest follow to show that they also are of the appreciative and selected cultured...
Figures that have been compiled by the Military Office show that at present men in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps hall from 39 universities and colleges besides Harvard. The list, composed as follows, includes educational institutions from all sections of the East: Amherst, Bates, Boston College, Boston University, Bowdoin, Brown, Colby, Colgate, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Georgetown, George Washington, Haverford, Holy Cross, Lehigh, Marietta, Massachusetts Agricultural College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Middlebury, New Hampshire State, New York University, Northeastern, Norwich, Princeton, Purdue, Rhode Island State, St. Lawrence, Stevens, Trinity, Tufts, Union, University of Maine, University of Pennsylvania, University of Wisconsin, Wesleyan...
...tremble on the field before the eye of the omniscent instructor, once safe behind the first-line trenches of a bench in a Sever Hall room, he feels himself master of his own destiny. The instructor is there to find out how little he knows. He is there to show how much...
...satisfaction to all Americans to know that the French Commission has arrived safely on its native soil. It was only a bare twelve days ago that we welcomed the Commission, and notably Marshal Joffre, to Harvard with all the honor and all the friendship that we might show...